[Ham-Computers] Installed new SATA hard drive, brief problem overcome

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I wonder what would have happened if you had just turned the machine off and 
rebooted it? It may have found the drive and assigned a drive letter?

Some drives come with software that you activate for a drive letter to be 
assigned, such as Iomega. Seems like the drive you bought should have also.

Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip, KO6BB" <ndb_fch-344 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Computers Ham" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:57 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Installed new SATA hard drive,brief problem 
overcome


> Hi,
>
> This week I replaced the WD 320GB SATA "D" drive(nearly full) with a 
> Seagate 500GB SATA drive.  The Seagate was on sale for much less than I 
> paid for the WD (which was also on sale when I bought it).
>
> Rather than using the bootable "Copy Commander" CD to "clone" the drives 
> prior to installation, I decided to use the disk provided by Seagate for 
> the task, performing the cloning action while in Windows.
>
> Even though the operating system (XP-Pro SP3) found the "New Hardware" and 
> properly identified it, loading the drivers etc, the drive didn't show up 
> in "My Computer" (it DID show up under hardware in the control panel).
>
> Anyway, figuring that perhaps the drive needed files to be recognized, I 
> went ahead and cloned the drive OK (1:40 to copy the drive), removed the 
> old 320GB drive (which still has all my OTR mP3's for backup) and closed 
> the computer up.  Still NO "D" drive displayed in "My Computer", so I 
> couldn't access the files on the new drive.
>
> So, I went online to the MS site and searched for "SATA Drive 
> recognition". That brought up a page telling me to open the "control 
> panel", then "Administrative tools", "Computer management",  "Disk 
> Management" and assign a drive letter to the drive. I assigned it "Drive 
> D", rebooted the machine and the new drive was then perfectly usable!!  I 
> had a fully cloned 500 GB installed and working in less than 3 hours after 
> I got home with it (including the 1:40 cloning time).
>
> This is REALLY puzzling because I NEVER had to go through this before when 
> I added a SATA Drive to this same machine, the computer automatically 
> assigned a drive letter, and the operating system has been XP-Pro all 
> along. . .
>
> Yes, I read here awhile back about somebody else that had problems 
> installing a SATA drive, but I didn't keep that Email as I'd never had a 
> problem ;-)
>
> FINAL NOTE:  This Seagate 500GB drive is MUCH faster than the old WD 320GB 
> drive.  I have over 36,000 MP3 files on it, when I search for a certain 
> file, containing say "Mountain" (as in "The Mountain of Diamond"), it goes 
> through all 36,000 files and brings up every file containing "Mountain" 
> almost immediately.  I don't have "File Indexing" turned on either.
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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